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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 3, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
In 1880, as the House met to discuss a funding bill as the Committee of the Whole, James B. Weaver of Iowa and William A.J. Sparks of Illinois became involved in a heated discussion, with members attempting to keep them apart. The Speaker ordered the Sergeant at Arms to walk about the floor of the House with the Mace, and order was restored.
The Clerk reads the list of members of the House, each of whom announces their vote when their name is called. This procedure is only used rarely (and usually for ceremonial occasions, such as for the election of a speaker) because of the time consumed by calling over four hundred names. [68]
U.S. House of Representatives [a] Arizona House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Corporal: 1979 [1] Delaware: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) 3rd (93rd overall) No Open seat; replacing Tom Carper (D) U.S. House of Representatives [b] Delaware Secretary of Labor 1962 [2] Indiana: Jim Banks (R) 2nd (92nd overall) No Open seat; replacing Mike ...
Ranking Member: Ways and Means: 8 Rosa DeLauro: D Connecticut 3: January 3, 1991 Ranking Member: Appropriations: 9 Maxine Waters: D California 43: Ranking Member: Financial Services: 10 Jerry Nadler: D New York 12: November 3, 1992 Ranking Member: Judiciary: 11 Sanford Bishop: D Georgia 2: January 3, 1993 12 Ken Calvert: R California 41: 13 Jim ...
Congress [e] has a total of 535 voting members, a figure which includes 100 senators and 435 representatives; the House of Representatives has 6 additional non-voting members. The vice president of the United States, as President of the Senate, has a vote in the Senate only when there is a tie. [4]
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January 3, 2021: 117th Congress officially begins. Members-elect of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are sworn in; though because of the COVID-19 pandemic, House members-elect did not all gather in the chamber to be sworn in, but rather, were summoned to the chambers in seven groups of about 72 people. [5]